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Fabiola Santiago

Fabiola Santiago: Cuba blackmails the US with exodus. Biden responds with ill-timed, mostly weak policy

After promising voters he would take a fresh look at U,S,-Cuba policy, President Joe Biden has delivered, 16 months into his term, ill-timed, mostly mediocre change that portends to help the Cuban people.

But consider the moment.

Biden is re-opening travel and expanding flights to the island that will inevitably turn into dollar-churning tourism at a time the ruthless regime is sentencing adolescents, musicians, artists and ordinary Cubans to long incarceration for nothing other than to peacefully demonstrate dissent.

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